Japan 1966
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1. 'Kûhaku no kiten' yori: Onna wa fukushû suru (1966)
Director: Kazuo Hase | Stars: Shigeru Amachi, Shirô Amakusa, Chisako Hara, Kaneko Iwasaki
2. 0-banchi no onna (1966)
Director: Kiyoshi Komori | Stars: Juri Taniguchi, Kaoru Miya, Mari Iwai, Sachiko Inoue
3. 3 Biki no tanuki (1966)
90 min | Drama
Director: Hideo Suzuki | Stars: Junzaburô Ban, Akira Takarada, Shôichi Ozawa, Yuriko Hoshi
4. Rise Against the Sword (1966)
101 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
During the Age of Warring States in feudal Japan, Kaga's Seven Clans of peasants unite to rebel against the local samurai warlords who oppress them.
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Nobuko Otowa, Makoto Satô, Ryô Tamura
Votes: 149
5. Abashiri Bangaichi: Koya no taiketsu (1966)
89 min | Crime
A strange episode with Takakura involved with horse-breeders and, at one point, getting revenge on at the guy who killed his Shetland pony.
Director: Teruo Ishii | Stars: Ken Takakura, Yôko Mihara, Jun Tazaki, Naoki Sugiura
Votes: 17
6. Abashiri Bangaichi: Nangoku no Taiketsu (1966)
88 min | Crime
Takakura and his friend Tanaka comes across a pick pocketing kid.
Director: Teruo Ishii | Stars: Ken Takakura, Shin'ichi Chiba, Teruo Yoshida, Reiko Ôhara
Votes: 15
7. Abashiri bangaichi: Dai setsugen no taiketsu (1966)
90 min | Crime
Director: Teruo Ishii | Stars: Ken Takakura, Reiko Ôhara, Teruo Yoshida, Kunie Tanaka
Votes: 9
8. Abazure (1966)
Crime, Drama, Romance
Director: Yûsuke Watanabe | Stars: Setsuko Amano, Yuriko Azuma, Hiroshi Date, Nobuo Hara
9. A Drop of Grease (1966)
Action, Crime
Director: Tokuzô Tanaka | Stars: Jirô Tamiya, Naoko Kubo, Mikio Narita, Nobuo Kaneko
11. Ahendaichi jigokubutai totsugekseyo (1966)
92 min | War
Director: Tai Katô | Stars: Noboru Andô, Yin-Tze Pan, Kôji Nanbara, Takamaru Sasaki
12. Thirst for Love (1966)
98 min | Drama
Etsuko, after her husbands death, moves in with her in-laws. With ambivalence, she finds herself sexually involved with her father-in-law. She then finds herself desiring young gardener Saburo, who has a relationship with the maid Miyo.
Director: Koreyoshi Kurahara | Stars: Nobuo Nakamura, Ruriko Asaoka, Akira Yamanouchi, Yûko Kusunoki
Votes: 424
13. The Heart of Hiroshima (1966)
93 min | Drama
Kazue falls in love with Yukio, who endured the bombing of Hiroshima as a child and fears acquiring radiation sickness. How will their love story go?
Director: Koreyoshi Kurahara | Stars: Sayuri Yoshinaga, Tetsuya Watari, Izumi Ashikawa, Akira Nakao
Votes: 27
14. Aikagi no onna (1966)
73 min
Director: Saburô Kyôdô | Stars: Inko Yamanaka, Tamaki Katori, Shôjirô Yamaguchi, Etsuko Kirihara
15. Aishite aishite aishichatta no yo (1966)
Director: Motomu Ida | Stars: Kôshi Akiyama, Reiko Arai, Eimei Esumi, Mitsuo Hamada
16. Aishû no yoru (1966)
86 min
Director: Katsumi Nishikawa | Stars: Tatsuya Fuji, Kazuo Funaki, Torahiko Hamada, Tomoko Hamakawa
17. Thirst for Love (1966)
90 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Jun'ya Satô | Stars: Yoshiko Sakuma, Yoshiko Mita, Rentarô Mikuni, Tetsurô Tanba
Votes: 17
18. Aiyoku no hate (1966)
81 min
Director: Giichi Nishihara | Stars: Keiko Niitaka, Ken'ichirô Sugiyama, Hachirô Tsuruoka, Yûzô Hirayama
19. Akai glass (1966)
86 min | Action, Crime
Director: Kô Nakahira | Stars: Tetsuya Watari, Jôji Ai, Tetsuko Kobayashi, Mizuho Suzuki
Votes: 12
21. Akai jôji (1966)
82 min
Director: Seiichi Fukuda | Stars: Takako Uchida, Michiko Sakyô, Yûichi Minato, Nami Katsura
22. The Red Angel (1966)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Romance, War
During the Sino-Japanese War, a young army nurse gives sympathy to her patients and falls in love with an impotent doctor who's addicted to morphine.
Director: Yasuzô Masumura | Stars: Ayako Wakao, Shinsuke Ashida, Yûsuke Kawazu, Ranko Akagi
Votes: 1,888
23. Akai yakôchû (1966)
Crime
Director: Shinji Murayama | Stars: Shigeko Arai, Shigemi Kitahara, Nenji Kobayashi, Chitoya Kurenai
25. Akogare (1966)
85 min | Drama
Director: Hideo Onchi | Stars: Kazuo Araki, Michiyo Aratama, Noriko Honma, Natsuko Kahara
Votes: 9
26. Aku no tanoshimi (1966)
73 min
Director: Ryosuke Kurahashi | Stars: Daikichi Onizuka, Keiko Kayama, Nami Kudô, Tokumaro Dan
27. Akudô (1966)
88 min
Director: Yûsuke Watanabe | Stars: Mako Midori, Kazuko Inano, Shôichi Ozawa, Kôji Shimizu
28. Akujo nikki (1966)
Director: Kan Mukai | Stars: Kimiko Naka, Yuriko Oka, Rika Fujita, Yôji Izumida
29. Akujo shigan (1966)
Director: Namio Yuasa | Stars: Setsu Shimizu, Ai Kikumura, Rika Mizuki, Kôji Satomi
30. Bad Reputation: Cherry Blossoms (1966)
85 min
Director: Tokuzô Tanaka | Stars: Shintarô Katsu, Jirô Tamiya, Etsuko Ichihara, Takuya Fujioka
Votes: 13
31. Akusô (1966)
76 min
Director: Kan Mukai | Stars: Kôhei Tsuzaki, Takako Uchida, Kuniko Masuda, Kimiko Naka
32. Akutokui: Sanfujinka nikki (1966)
Director: Seiichi Fukuda | Stars: Tamaki Katori, Shû Furuhashi, Miharu Shima, Jôji Ôhara
33. Amai kuchibiru (1966)
83 min
Director: Giichi Nishihara | Stars: Tamaki Katori, Miharu Shima, Juri Taniguchi, Kôtarô Mori
34. Amai taishû (1966)
70 min
Director: Satoru Kobayashi | Stars: Kuniko Masuda, Tatsuya Ôtsuki, Kyôji Kokonoe, Kozue Hidori
35. Amai toiki (1966)
80 min
Director: Takanori Ônishi | Stars: Juri Taniguchi, Tôru Enmonji, Chikako Natsumi, Shin'ichirô Haragata
37. Your Life (1966)
82 min | Action, Crime
A moodo/akushon yakuza picture with heavy emphasis on poignant seishun romance.
Director: Buichi Saitô | Stars: Tetsuya Watari, Jô Shishido, Chieko Matsubara, Kei Satô
Votes: 11
38. Anata no rusu ni? (1966)
71 min
Director: Kinya Ogawa | Stars: Keiko Niitaka, Nami Katsura, Setsu Shimizu, Hachirô Tsuruoka
39. Andesu no hanayome (1966)
103 min | Drama
Tamiko, a Japanese mail-order bride, arrives in Peru to meet her new husband, a Japanese archeologist working on Inca ruins and Tamiko tries to adjust to her new lifestyle and routine.
Director: Susumu Hani | Stars: Sachiko Hidari, Ancermo Fukuda, Kôji Takahashi, Don Mateo
Votes: 12
40. Aogeba tôtoshi (1966)
93 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Minoru Shibuya | Stars: Hisaya Morishige, Akiko Nomura, Etsuko Ichihara, Kei Tani
41. Aoi taishû (1966)
72 min
Director: Ichirô Kyôdô | Stars: Michiko Sakyô, Eiji Maki, Keiko Naruse, Setsu Shimizu
42. Arashi no nyotai (1966)
70 min
Director: Kinya Ogawa | Stars: Kaoru Miya, Hiroshi Utsuki, Ako Takehara, Hachirô Tsuruoka
43. Arashi o yobu otoko (1966)
95 min | Drama, Music
Director: Toshio Masuda | Stars: Tetsuya Watari, Izumi Ashikawa, Meiko Kaji, Kazuko Tachibana
Votes: 18
44. Arupusu no wakadaishô (1966)
94 min | Comedy, Romance
Director: Kengo Furusawa | Stars: Yûzô Kayama, Yuriko Hoshi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Ichirô Arishima
Votes: 14
45. Asakusa no odoriko: Nureta suhada (1966)
75 min
Director: Mamoru Watanabe | Stars: Chikako Natsumi, Kuniko Masuda, Akemi Kagawa, Akemi Haruna
47. Man's Hot Blood (1966)
Action, Crime
Director: Meijiro Umezu | Stars: Muga Takewaki, Isao Kimura, Ryôhei Uchida, Yoshi Katô
49. Bakuto Shichi-nin (1966)
92 min
Director: Shigehiro Ozawa | Stars: Kôji Tsuruta, Shingo Yamashiro, Kyôsuke Machida, Rin'ichi Yamamoto
Votes: 7
50. Bangkok no yoru (1966)
105 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Yasuki Chiba | Stars: Yûzô Kayama, Mei-Yao Chang, Yuriko Hoshi, Fubuki Koshiji
51. Bantô o-iroke nikki (1966)
77 min
Director: Nao Fujita | Stars: Shunji Kubo, Shûji Kawabe, Senyô Ôhira, Miki Kasai
52. Biyaku no wana (1966)
Drama
Director: Kôji Seki | Stars: Nami Katsura, Kôji Satomi, Kaoru Miya, Keiko Naruse
53. Nostalgia and the Law (1966)
90 min | Action, Crime
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Noboru Andô, Muga Takewaki, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Taiji Tonoyama
54. Bosû wa ore no kenjû de (1966)
Crime
Director: Shinji Murayama | Stars: Tatsuo Umemiya, Eiji Okada, Susumu Fujita, Shinjirô Ebara
55. Mr. Greenhorn (1966)
90 min
Director: Hirokazu Ichimura | Stars: Arihiro Fujimura, Eiko Ichikawa, Mariko Kaga, Yoshiko Kayama
56. Bôken daikatsugeki: Ôgon no touzoku (1966)
90 min | Action, History
Director: Tadashi Sawashima | Stars: Hiroki Matsukata, Kôichi Ôse, Kanbi Fujiyama, Masumi Harukawa
57. Chi wa taiyô yori akai (1966)
81 min | Drama
A high school student preparing for his university entrance exams is discontent with various social inequities and is determined to take vengeance on all adults.
Director: Kôji Wakamatsu | Stars: Kazuhiko Ôtsuka, Tamami Wakahara, Yumiko Ichinose, Yukari Yamabuki
Votes: 26
58. Chibusa nikki (1966)
75 min
Director: Saburô Kyôdô | Stars: Takako Uchida, Ryû Chiba, Yôko Mie, Keiko Tachibana
60. Chiisai tôbôsha (1966)
108 min | Adventure, Family
During the tour of the Soviet circus in Japan, the little street musician Ken meets the clown Yuri Nikulin. After learning that his sick father is being treated in the Soviet Union, Kang ... See full summary »
Directors: Eduard Bocharov, Teinosuke Kinugasa | Stars: Chiharu Inayoshi, Michiyo Yasuda, Hiroyuki Ôta, Machiko Kyô
Votes: 88
61. Chijô no shindansho (1966)
78 min
Director: Kôe Shindô | Stars: Yasuko Matsui, Aki Ema, Yuki Kitagawa, Hideo Saeki
62. Chimatsuri kenkajo (1966)
89 min | Action, Crime
Director: Toshio Masuda | Stars: Hideki Takahashi, Masako Izumi, Jô Shishido, Yûji Odaka
Votes: 7
63. The Sword of Doom (1966)
Not Rated | 120 min | Action, Drama
Through his unconscionable actions against others, a sociopath samurai builds a trail of vendettas that follow him closely.
Director: Kihachi Okamoto | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Yûzô Kayama, Yôko Naitô
Votes: 12,078
64. The Great Villain's Strategy (1966)
Action, Comedy, Crime
Director: Teruo Ishii | Stars: Jô Shishido, Teruo Yoshida, Hideo Taka, Kyôsuke Machida
65. Gamera vs. Barugon (1966)
Not Rated | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A giant monster that emits a destructive ray from its back attacks Japan and takes on Gamera.
Directors: Shigeo Tanaka, Noriaki Yuasa | Stars: Kôjirô Hongô, Kyôko Enami, Yûzô Hayakawa, Takuya Fujioka
Votes: 2,838
67. Daimajin (1966)
Unrated | 84 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A giant stone statue comes to life to protect the residents of a small town against the depradations of an evil warlord.
Director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda | Stars: Miwa Takada, Yoshihiko Aoyama, Jun Fujimaki, Ryûtarô Gomi
Votes: 1,892
68. Wrath of Daimajin (1966)
Not Rated | 87 min | Fantasy
In a mountainous region of Japan, Lord Arakawa kidnaps the men of nearby villages to use as slave labor, producing gunpowder from his sulfur pits. A band of young boys decide to rescue their enslaved fathers on their own.
Director: Kazuo Mori | Stars: Hideki Ninomiya, Shinji Hori, Masahide Iizuka, Muneyuki Nagatomo
Votes: 840
69. Return of Daimajin (1966)
Not Rated | 79 min | Drama, Fantasy
Giant statue exacts revenge upon those who conquer its worshippers.
Director: Kenji Misumi | Stars: Kôjirô Hongô, Shiho Fujimura, Tarô Marui, Takashi Kanda
Votes: 975
70. Watari, Ninja Boy (1966)
83 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
2 ninja clans are conned into fighting each other for years by their evil leaders. Watari; small hard as nails Ninja Boy saves the day.
Director: Sadao Funatoko | Stars: Yoshinobu Kaneko, Bin Amatsu, Daisuke Awaji, Kensaku Hara
Votes: 136
71. The Betrayal (1966)
87 min | Action, Drama
A naively honorable samurai comes to the bitter realization that his devotion to moral samurai principles makes him an oddity among his peers and a very vulnerable oddity in consequence.
Director: Tokuzô Tanaka | Stars: Raizô Ichikawa, Kaoru Yachigusa, Shiho Fujimura, Ichirô Nakatani
Votes: 304
72. Dakarete nake (1966)
Director: Satoru Kobayashi | Stars: Yuri Izumi, Maya Katsuki, Junko Takatsuki, Kumiko Mayama
73. Danryû (1966)
89 min | Drama
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Shima Iwashita, Chieko Baishô, Mikijirô Hira, Toshiyuki Hosokawa
74. Danshun (1966)
93 min
Director: Noboru Nakamura | Stars: Mori Mitsuko, Shima Iwashita, Isao Yamagata, Kuniko Miyake
75. Datai (1966)
75 min | Crime, Drama
A gynecologist attempts to rid the world of sexual problems by separating sex on the one hand and reproduction, which he feels should be left to artificial wombs.
Director: Masao Adachi | Stars: Mikio Terashima, Reiko Ensho, Nami Katsura, Yuri Nishi
Votes: 67
76. Dorobo banzuke (1966)
83 min
Director: Kazuo Ikehiro | Stars: Yoshihiko Aoyama, Yûtarô Ban, Saburô Date, Tatsuo Endô
Votes: 10
77. Doto ichiman kairi (1966)
103 min | Action, Adventure
Captain Murakami takes over as skipper of the Azuma Maru, replacing the well-liked former captain. Murakami forces the crew to work harder than they ever have, creating enmity and ... See full summary »
Director: Jun Fukuda | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Mihashi, Makoto Satô, Ryô Tamura
Votes: 36
78. Sword: Flower-Strewn Path of Courage (1966)
Action, Crime
Director: Hiroki Matsuno | Stars: Isamu Nagato, Tôru Abe, Keiji Takagi, Yoshiko Kayama
79. Eiko eno chôsen (1966)
101 min | Action, Crime
Director: Toshio Masuda | Stars: Yûjirô Ishihara, Ruriko Asaoka, Keiju Kobayashi, Gorô Tarumi
80. Enmu (1966)
70 min
Director: Kan Mukai | Stars: Masayoshi Nogami, Takumi Aoki, Kuniko Murata, Masako Naitô
82. The Pornographers (1966)
Not Rated | 120 min | Comedy, Drama
While avoiding the mob and local authorities, a world-weary pornographer finds being a family man the most difficult as he wrestles with his own desires and afflictions.
Director: Shôhei Imamura | Stars: Shôichi Ozawa, Sumiko Sakamoto, Keiko Sagawa, Masaomi Kondô
Votes: 2,528
83. Esa (1966)
62 min | Drama
Koichi is a gigolo who is paid by a madame to seduce and have sex with various women while she and her clients secretly watch. He doesn't like what he's doing, but he needs the money to ... See full summary »
Director: Kan Mukai | Stars: Natsue Hanaha, Senjo Ichiriki, Jiro Kenda, Machiko Matsumoto
Votes: 71
84. Folk de Ikô: Ginrei wa Koi-shiteru (1966)
86 min
Director: Umetsugu Inoue | Stars: Muga Takewaki, Yoshiko Kayama, Itoko Harada, Tôru Abe
85. Fujun na kairaku (1966)
72 min
Director: Kôya Nakano | Stars: Tamaki Katori, Yuri Izumi, Kyôko Katsuragi
86. Trump Card of Revenge (1966)
Action, Crime
HUMOROUS ELEMENTS PEPPER THIS VEHICLE FOR TAMIYA, MOST REVOLVING AROUND THE VARIOUS DISGUISES HE ASSUMES.
Director: Shunkai Mizuho | Stars: Jirô Tamiya, Kyôko Enami, Kyôsuke Machida, Machiko Hasegawa
87. Fukuzatsu na kare (1966)
90 min | Drama
Director: Kôji Shima | Stars: Jirô Tamiya, Mariko Kô, Shûji Sano, Edith Hanson
88. The War of the Gargantuas (1966)
G | 92 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
The sole survivor of a fishing boat recounts sightings of hairy giants. A scientist investigates, revealing mutated creatures, growing from remains of a previous monster. Nearly indestructible, they battle in Tokyo until only one remains.
Director: Ishirô Honda | Stars: Russ Tamblyn, Kumi Mizuno, Kenji Sahara, Nobuo Nakamura
Votes: 3,536
91. Futeki na aitsu (1966)
87 min | Action, Crime
Director: Shôgorô Nishimura | Stars: Akira Kobayashi, Ichirô Nakatani, Tatsuya Fuji, Izumi Ashikawa
92. Fûsha no aru machi (1966)
90 min
Director: Kenjirô Morinaga | Stars: Sayuri Yoshinaga, Mitsuo Hamada, Izumi Ashikawa, Reiko Arai
93. Gakusei-zuma (1966)
76 min
Director: Kan Mukai | Stars: Hitomi Wakatsuki, Hiroko Asuka, Keiko Naruse, Yôko Mie
95. Gammera the Invincible (1966)
Unrated | 86 min | Action, Family, Sci-Fi
An atomic explosion awakens Gammera--a giant, fire-breathing turtle monster--from his millions of years of hibernation. Enraged at being roused from such a sound sleep, he takes it out on Tokyo.
Directors: Sandy Howard, Noriaki Yuasa | Stars: Albert Dekker, Brian Donlevy, Diane J. Findlay, John Baragrey
Votes: 1,344
96. Gan (1966)
87 min
Director: Kazuo Ikehiro | Stars: Ayako Wakao, Gaku Yamamoto, Eitarô Ozawa, Hisano Yamaoka
Votes: 14
97. Gekitsû (1966)
Director: Kiyoshi Komori | Stars: Sumiko Shinga, Kôji Satomi, Junko Yamamoto, Mari Seki
98. Genji monogatari (1966)
Drama
The son of an emperor pursues his father's new bride, leading to tragic consequences. Genji then engages in affairs, searching for fulfillment amidst desires he cannot obtain.
Directors: Kon Ichikawa, Tetsuji Takechi | Stars: Kotobuki Hananomoto, Ruriko Asaoka, Izumi Ashikawa, Chôjûrô Hanakawa
Votes: 57
99. Genjitsu - Natsume Sôseki 'Yume jûya' ni yoru (1966)
78 min | Drama
Director: Tetsuji Takechi | Stars: Tsune Shibata, Ryôhei Uchida, Hideko Kawaguchi, Kôhei Tsuzaki
100. Cash Calls Hell (1966)
92 min | Action, Crime
Fresh out of prison, a broken man reluctantly takes a job to kill three men, but changes his mind when some gangsters target the same men. He then tries to find out why the men are being targeted in the first place.
Director: Hideo Gosha | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Ichirô Nakatani, Hisashi Igawa, Kunie Tanaka
Votes: 385
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